Life — January 25, 1900 — page 7: what you’re looking at

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-LIFE: 67 start strange questionings in tho minds of some descendants of thoso who were proud to be called Abolitionists, Brown was, no doubt, tho little flame that kindled a great fir, but does that Justify his cold-blooded murder of men in Kuvsas, or bis utter contempt for federal authority and his rebellion against it? ‘The flvo men whom Brown called out of their beds at Pottawatomio in tho middloof the night and coolly “executed” wero treated justas tho South treats negro criminals to-day. Civilization can neither justify Drown nor tho lynchers, The mon who furnished Brown money and moral support to arm negroes for an insurrection wero aiding and abetting lawlessness in a country where the majority woro at liberty to make the laws, Brown wasa sincere fanatic, no doubt, and {8 a dramatic fzuro of great impressiveness, Itut surely he is nota bero to be worshipped in a Republic which boasts of the reign of liberty and law? If this is au Ago of Reason, is it not timo to cease believing that tho ultimate results of fanaticism can ever be wholly good—whether tho fanatic 1s named Mahomet, John Brown or Bryan? puch, wi Were, Long-Suffering. TUS is the Fifty-sixth Congress, isn’t it?” Yes. Why?” “«T was just thinking that it is no wonder that travele:s com- ment on the good-natured tolerance we show as a people.” Ge ~ The Boar ; NOW, THEN, RUN HOME AND THINK IT OVER. €€ 73 the difference betwe ¢ war in Africa and the one in the Philippines a matter of opinion, papa No, my son; merely one of color.” CAN LICK EVERYBODY, ; & — — a and love potions, stiil the modern reader has a right to ask that a 2 modern poct should not too rudely grate upon his sénse of the i reasonableness of things. a However, tho last act redcems thu play from any touch of tho { fantastic, It is intense passion and often exquisite poctry. The a] alternations of lovoand hate in the childless Lucrezia are pathet- ically expressed, and the surrender of Paolo and Francesca to tho Inevitable passion is free from the taint of earth — ++ SUI, still together, even when fatnts Thy sun, And past our souls Thy stars like ashes fall, How wilt thou punish us who cannot part?” N these days, when the North is calling with considerable I yehemence the South to account for taking the law into its own hands to punish negroes for admitted atrocious crimes, It might bo well to study the lives of somo of tho men whom we now regard as heroes and martyrs, An impartial volume, such as Joseph Edgar Chamberlin has written upon “John Brown” (Small, Maynard & Co.) for the excellent Beacon Biographies, will, perhaps, LANGDON 80 SHORTY DID I STUNT IS GROWTH BY RETTES WHEN HK WAS A BOY?) WAS BROUGHT UP ON CONDENSED MILK BY IS PARENTS IN cH THEY LIVED. | id | 1 comicbooks.com